CIIR current researchers and alums gathered during SIGIR 2026 in Australia in July 2026. Congrats to Keping Bi for her Early Career Research Award - ACM SIGIR Excellence in Community Engagement; to Jeff Dalton, Laura Dietz, and James Allan for a SIGIR 2026 Test of Time Award Honorable Mention; and to Michael Bendersky and Don Metzler, with co-authors Xuanhui Wang and Marc Najork, for a SIGIR 2026 Test of Time Award. Pictured (left to right): Andrew Drozdov, Fernando Diaz, Qingyao Ai, Jamie Callan, Ozel Yilmazel, Keping Bi, David Lewis, Laura Dietz, Mark Smucker, Jeff Dalton, Mark Sanderson, Chirag Shah, Dawn Lawrie, and Julian Killingback.
